“Hersch’s art is powerful, visceral, and profoundly imaginative… she engages with universal topics in a transcendent and moving manner.” – The Theatre Times

This intimate and playful work, performed by teenagers who call into the theatre on mobile phones, is a powerful meditation on age and change: changes to bodies, changes in attitude, and changes to life. 

Questions of boundaries, sexuality, pleasure, shame, pain, consent, ageing, grief, and death are all on the table as teens chat with the audience in real time from their bedrooms. 

As an inter-generational conversation unfolds, the teacher and the student, the adult and the child, the performer and the audience, begin to shift and entangle. At the direction and instigation of the young telephone callers, we’re given an immersive insight into the sights and sounds of Generation Z. 

Body of Knowledge is a surprising, curious, and tender experience exploring how we pay attention (or not) to our own and others’ bodies existing across generations.

Duration: 90 minutes, no interval
Age Restrictions: 18+

Body of Knowledge involves listening and some physical tasks. Tasks may be modified for accessibility requirements. Please contact us directly to discuss any access requirements ahead of booking at info@pica.org.au 

Dates

Wednesday 16 November | 7pm
Thursday 17 November | 6pm & 9pm
Friday 18 November | 6pm & 9pm
Saturday 19 November | 6pm & 9pm